Expressões do moderno sergipano: as residências unifamiliares do bairro São José nos anos 50 e 60

The dissemination of the Modern architecture in Brazil presents a large diversity, which goes from the great landmarks references of its production as the Pampulha Complex designed by great architects such as Niemeyer to a lay appropriations immensity that manifests in pillars, open elements, among others that demonstrate the multiplicity of wills, of understanding and the concretizing of being modern in the vastness of Brazilian landscape. The importance of knowing the local cultures and contexts peculiarities becomes fundamental in the mapping of this diversity and in the deepening of what it was and what it meant the modern architecture, or the modern architectures in many country’s regions, and in the specific case of the Brazilian Northeast. This work aims to contribute for this journey, with the study of the houses built between the 50’s and the 60’s, at São José Borough in Aracaju City, that somehow has incorporated solutions of this movement in their architectural conceptions. This borough shelters in the Aracaju’s scenario, the most significant production of this period (partially protected by local legislation), with a reasonable preservation level, in which it still is possible to identify and analyze the formal characteristics and values that had configured and consolidated the modern architecture in the city. From the inventory of the area buildings, with total of 52 houses, and other 3 located near the borough (which were included due to their exceptionally at Sergipe’s capital), and from deep study of the most excellent solutions, the research discloses the confrontation of modern living and its authors hybridism (in its majority not architects) at a city which did not have an Architecture School, and had its growth fomented by the arrival of Petrobrás and the eagerness for modernity after the Brasília construction. The questions that this work intends to answer are: How, when and who had been the responsible ones for these buildings? Which are the main characteristics and the predominant solutions of this production? Which are the main influences of this architecture? And what it has represented, and still represents in the history of the city?